Their clothing consisted of a cap, a frock, a pair of breeches, a pair of boots, and a pair of gloves, all made of leather, or of the skins of deer, dogs, seals, &c. and extremely well dressed, some with the hair or fur on, but others without it.  The caps were made to fit the head very close; and besides these caps, which most of them wore, we got from them some hoods, made of skins of dogs, that were large enough to cover both head and shoulders.  Their hair seemed to be black; but their heads were either shaved, or the hair cut close off, and none of them wore any beard.  Of the few articles which they got from us, knives and tobacco were what they valued most.

We found the village composed both of their summer and their winter habitations.  The latter are exactly like a vault, the floor of which is sunk a little below the surface of the earth.  One of them which I examined was of an oval form, about twenty feet long, and twelve or more high.  The framing was composed of wood and the ribs of whales, disposed in a judicious manner, and bound together with smaller materials of the same sort.  Over this framing is laid a covering of strong coarse grass, and that again is covered with earth, so that, on the outside, the house looks like a little hillock, supported by a wall of stone, three or four feet high, which is built round the two sides and one end.  At the other end, the earth is raised sloping, to walk up to the entrance, which is by a hole in the top of the roof over that end.  The floor was boarded, and under it a kind of cellar, in which I saw nothing but water.  And at the end of each house was a vaulted room, which I took to be a store-room.  These store-rooms communicated with the house, by a dark passage, and with the open air, by a hole in the roof, which was even with the ground one walked upon; but they cannot be said to be wholly under ground, for one end reached to the edge of the hill, along which they were made, and which was built up with stone.  Over it stood a kind of sentry-box, or tower, composed of the large bones of large fish.

The summer huts were pretty large and circular, being brought to a point at the top.  The framing was of slight poles and bones, covered with the skins of sea-animals.  I examined the inside of one.  There was a fire-place just within the door, where lay a few wooden vessels, all very dirty.  Their bed-places were close to the side, and took up about half the circuit.  Some privacy seemed to be observed; for there were several partitions made with skins.  The bed and bedding were of deer-skins, and most of them were dry and clean.

About the habitations were erected several stages, ten or twelve feet high, such as we had observed on some parts of the American coast.  They were wholly composed of bones, and seemed intended for drying their fish and skins, which were thus placed beyond the reach of their dogs, of which they had a great many.  These dogs are of the fox kind, rather large, and of different colours, with long soft hair like wool.  They are, probably, used in drawing their sledges in winter.  For sledges they have, as I saw a good many laid up in one of the winter huts.  It is also not improbable, that dogs may constitute a part of their food.  Several lay dead that had been killed that morning.